hateful - Story 61268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words felt like a punch to the gut. “We're going in a different direction.” Different direction? After all the time, all the effort. John, the star tennis player, was now an alternate. The air in the club house felt thick, oppressive.

He stalked towards the courts, his body tense, every muscle screaming. He picked up a racket and smashed a ball with excessive force, the satisfying *crack* of the impact a brief reprieve.

He began to imagine all the ways he would prevent his rival from winning. Every shot would be a focused act of spite.

Emotion: hateful

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.71 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 2.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hateful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 hateful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hateful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hateful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.553
`S`	0.367
`retali`	0.313
`aggravated`	0.310
`恨`	0.308

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.334
`own`	-0.310
`optimistic`	-0.270
`been`	-0.264
`gradual`	-0.262